Many approaches have been proposed to reducing prejudice, some successful and some not so much. With help from the British Academy, a team of psychologists is now investigating the latest theory in this field: that witnessing moral beauty may make us less homophobic.

Each year, the British Academy elects to its fellowship up to 52 outstanding UK-based scholars who have achieved distinction in any branch of the humanities and social sciences.
Others based overseas can also be elected as Corresponding Fellows, and, in addition, the Academy can elect Honorary Fellows.

Dr Caroline Page received a British Academy Small Research Grant to study the interplay between official propaganda and public opinion on the Vietnam War in Australia and New Zealand, 1965–1973. Here she reveals how the need to be perceived as good allies of the US drew the two countries into greater involvement in the war.

This programme provides UK-based researchers at any career stage - and active in any discipline within the social sciences and the humanities - with an opportunity to develop and lead interdisciplinary research projects which bear on existing understanding of the international challenges and opportunities which the UK has faced, is facing and/or will face.